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Seven Arrested as Army Raids Baby Factory

SEVEN people have been arrested after troops raided a baby factory in Adamawa State last week.

The suspects were apprehended during the operation on June 23, with the parade done at the military headquarters on Saturday.

They were nabbed during a raid in their enclave in Adamawa state on the Nigerian-Cameroon border.

Police say the gang was operating a brothel, human trafficking joint and baby factory.

The Brigade Commander, 23 Armoured Brigade Yola, Major General Mohammed Jibrin-Gambo paraded the suspects on Saturday at the brigade headquarters in Yola, the Adamawa StatAccording to him, troops of the brigade were in a special operation on the border area between Nigeria and Cameroon, and upon credible information, stormed the enclave of criminals at the outskirts of Kasingila village in Maiha Local Government Area of Adamawa.

Also rescued were 17 teenage girls as well as two babies.

The suspects, he stated, were apprehended in a border settlement less than a kilometre from the Belel district, the last community before entering the Cameroon Republic.

The rescued girls said to have been in the camp for about two to three years, were recruited as minors and brought to the camp without the knowledge of their families.

Some of the victims said they were accommodated in a single room and slept on mats.  They also claimed that the money realised was held back by their captors so that they cannot escape.

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